Senior Lecturer at the University of Lille, France. She has published extensively on Victorian fiction, translated Dickens’s A Christmas Carol for Le Livre de Poche (Un chant de Noël), and edited Spellbound, George Gissing as well as Writing Otherness: The Pathways of George Gissing’s Imagination (Equilibris, 2008 and 2011). She is co–editor of two special issues on Dickens Matters and Dickens His/story for the «Dickens Quarterly»; one special issue on Dickens in the New Millennium for «Les Cahiers victoriens et édouardiens»; George Moore: Across Borders (Rodopi, 2013); George Gissing and the Woman Question. Convention and Dissent (Ashgate, 2013); Dickens, Modernism, Modernity (Paris: Sagittaire, 2014) and Unsettling Dickens: Process, Progress and Change (Sagittaire, 2016). In 2011 she curated a Dickens exhibition at the Château d’Hardelot at Condette and edited its catalogue, Charles Dickens L’Inimitable/ The Inimitable (Paris: Democratic).